The count's millions [electronic resource] . and there is present to our minds the same differencens exists between the representations of human faces on canvas and the reilcction of the samefaces in a mirror, lt i- like [hiding truth for the fir-t time. Zola is one ot the moral in lranee, and it is really a-toiiishing how anyonecan doubt this. He makes us note the smell of vice, not its perfume : his nude figures are tlvseof the anatomical talk, which do not inspire the slightest immoral thought ; there i- not one ofLis books, not even the crudest, that doe- not leave behind


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